Nora Hauptle, the coach of the Black Queens, believes that her team still has work to do in preparation for upcoming tournaments despite leading them to three victories, including a doubleheader against the Teranga Lionesses of Senegal.
Although she was pleased with the outcomes of the matches, she acknowledges the importance of playing against more opponents to further develop the team’s principles and help the players find each other.
The team is in the building process and needs friendly games against different kinds of opponents to fulfill different tasks before going into the qualification series.
“I think, all in all, in the end, we deserved this victory, we also need to give respect to Senegal.”
“I think we had the patience also, we knew we have quality and in the end, sometimes you play not so beautiful, but you still win and this is very important.”
“Yes we go step by step, we still need to work a lot on our principles, the players need to find each other.”
“We are still in the building process of this team and it is very important again, that we have friendly games.”
“We can play against different kind of opponents, which gives us different task to fulfil then we go into the qualification series.”
The Black Queens aim to qualify for the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations in 2024 after missing out on the previous edition in Morocco due to a 2-1 aggregate defeat to Nigeria in the final round of qualifiers.
